Joe Rogan Experience #2018 - Post Malone

On his second JRE visit, Post Malone is fresh off a 60-pound weight loss and in a noticeably happier headspace after becoming a father. He and Joe range widely: the looming threat of AI-generated music, the value of human authenticity, psilocybin and the Stoned Ape theory, video games and Magic: The Gathering, and Joe's deep dive into compound archery. They drift through conspiracies and history, from MK Ultra and Charles Manson to the younger dryas impact, nuclear weapons, and UFO disclosure. The back half becomes a long, joyful music-and-movie geek-out over Blade, No Country for Old Men, Colter Wall, Robert Johnson, and the documentary Searching for Sugar Man.

• Post Malone reveals he dropped from about 240 to 185 pounds, roughly 60 pounds, mainly by cutting out soda.
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• Post Malone says becoming a dad pulled him out of a long depression and changed his outlook completely.
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• Post Malone describes a lasting depersonalization that began after one bad joint, feeling like he watches his life rather than living it.
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• Post Malone reveals he bought a one-of-a-kind $2 million Lord of the Rings Magic: The Gathering card pulled by a Costco worker in Toronto.
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• Post Malone reveals he bought the 1927 Ritz Theater in Austin as his comedy club and is bringing in ghost hunters after hearing someone was murdered there.
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• Joe recounts that Searching for Sugar Man's Rodriguez was a megastar in South Africa while doing construction labor in the US, unaware of his fame.
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• Sharks are older than trees, having existed at least 400 million years versus trees' roughly 360 million.
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• The Stoned Ape theory (Terence McKenna) links the doubling of the human brain to early hominids eating psilocybin mushrooms on cow patties.
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• Ergot fungus poisoning on wheat, producing an LSD-like effect, may have been behind the Salem witch trials.
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• Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a participant in Harvard's MK Ultra-linked LSD studies.
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• An average cloud weighs around a million pounds, roughly 500,000 kg of water droplets.
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• Tommy Lee left a naked photo of himself on his tour bus bed reading 'enjoy the bus.'
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• The B83, the largest deployed US nuclear warhead, is equivalent to about 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
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• A declassified CIA file recounts a KGB claim that soldiers were turned into limestone after shooting down a UFO.
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